Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The chambered Nautilus; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“For men have dulled their eyes with sin,
And dimmed the light of heaven with doubt,
And built their temple-walls to shut thee in,
And framed their iron creeds to shut thee out.”
God of the Open Air, st. III (1904).
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Girolamo Gigli (1660–1722) Italian dramaturge
Il cielo chiude volentieri gli occhi a nostri difetti, quando non son fatti avanti gli occhi del mondo, e quando per mancanza di testimoni non possa compire perfettamente il processo contra di noi.
Il Don Pilone (1711), Act III., Sc. V. — (Don Pilone.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 312.
“Be sure thy sin will find thee out.”
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
Source: And Then There Were None
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(19th May 1827) Genius
The London Literary Gazette, 1827
“Opening, my eyes say 'Let there be light',
Closing, they shut me in a coffin.”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"The Human Situation"
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: And if this I were destroyed,
The image shattered,
My perceived, rent world would fly
In an explosion of final judgement
To the ends of the sky,
The colour in the iris of the eye.
Opening, my eyes say 'Let there be light',
Closing, they shut me in a coffin.
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Autumn Song
Song lyrics, Hard Nose the Highway (1973)
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
"The Rainbow".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair,
Forms turn to musick, clouds to smiles and air;
Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours
Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers.
Bright pledge of peace and sun-shine! the sure tye
Of thy Lord's hand, the object of his eye.
When I behold thee, though my light be dim,
Distant, and low, I can in thine see Him
Who looks upon thee from his glorious throne,
And mindes the covenant 'twixt all and One.
Caroline B. Cooney (1947) American writer
“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom